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[minervasolo]

Owwpain. Last's years attempts at buying a non-rubbing pair of white sandals* still rub. They're going in the 'to sell' pile. I suspect the year before's will join them shortly (in several weeks time, once the blisters have gone and I can attempt to wear sandals again). Went to campus to get books out, realised my library card was still at home, and ended up walking home from campus barefoot (which was cool, so not a total disaster of a trip).


*Shoes bought before I turned 18 are fine. Pretty much every pair of shoes I've bought since rub. This especially goes for sandals, and particularly white sandals: I bought a pair from M&S when I was about fourteen, which were great, but they are now hideously tatty, and technically a size too small, and I have mande attempts several times to replace them. When I find a pair of sandals that do, I told myself, I'd chuck the old ones away. I still have them.

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[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

I can totally sympathise.

I have given up buying sandals because I can never find ones that don't rub.

And as for other shoes. At a size 8, I can usually only find shoes that are too tight on the toe or too tight across. If they fit in one dimension, they won't fit in another, which is really annoying. Size 9s are too big, which is good or I'd feel like a real freak, but it'd be nice if size 8s actually fitted. The only ones that fit are always really expensive and really boring :(

[xaviera-x.livejournal.com]

I know some places do shoes in different width-fittings, do you think that might help? Or is it more that the shape is wrong?

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but no, it wouldn't help.

It's not the width so much as the depth. In ordinary shoes, it's generally OK (but in ordinary shoes, my toes generally get squished), it's in the cute Mary Jane style shoes, they're always too damned tight on top, which is what I meant by across earlier (I realise I wasn't explaining myself very well).

I've tried wider shoes before, but they tended to be too wide. Meh :(

[odangochan.livejournal.com]

I hate sandals. They always rub for me as well. The tendon at the back of my heel is unusually straight, so anything except boots rubs there as well :(

The only summer shoes I've found that I can tolerate are the geta from Japan - normally "toe-post" stuff rubs like hell as well, but these are particularly padded in that area so are fine. Sadly the wood is starting to splinter at the bottom so I don't know how much life they have in them,